Shackleford v. Taylor

The evidence before Judge McLaughlin, in short summary, disclosed the following: On the afternoon of August 5, 1962, the plaintiff was riding beside her husband in the front seat of a Plymouth automobile as he drove slowly along Highway No. 220 in the Town of Candor in Montgomery County. Traffic was heavy. The defendant, a State Highway Patrolman, undertook to back the patrol car into the highway from its parked position between two other vehicles, all parked at an angle to the curb. The Plymouth approached from the rear. The two vehicles came in contact. The rear bumper of the patrol car…